Stanley Tucci on Cooking Italian

"I remember eating crabs (culled from the Hudson River), spread out on newspaper with ears of steaming corn, my mother's paella, her risotto Milanese, breaded veal cutlets, and eggplant, zucchini, potatoes, and tomato casserole; the latter two I often took to school the next day sandwiched between half a loaf of Italian bread," Tucci says.

The Hunger Games actor has a new cookbook out filled with Tucci family favorites, and he spoke to Tanya about his childhood food memories and some of his food-related film roles in the interview for Gourmet Live's Italian Issue.